Here's something I thought I'd never get to say: I've played 30 minutes of The Last Guardian.

The Last Guardian has taken its sweet time. That's an understatement. But since it's relaunch as a PlayStation 4 game at E3 last year, a release date has seemed like a more realistic, palpable thing.

And, if you believe Fumito Ueda, it's coming out this year. As in 2016. Probably.

Everyone else is talking about the games they can't wait for this year, and I want in on the fun! I don't know much about what the second half of the year will bring (or if we'll have another Fallout-style announcement), but there is a huge amount of quality in the first half of the year. So here's what's on my radar.

I was really excited about this year's E3. At first. It's the end of E3 day one, and I'm looking back on all the news the press conferences brought us.

Bombshell: The Last Guardian is still alive, and it's coming out on the PS4 in 2016. The practically mythical game was shown off today during Sony's E3 press conference. It's a damn miracle.

It's frankly ridiculous how close some games are to finished when they are cancelled — or, conversely, how vaporous they can be when they're first shown. At trade shows, you see maybe 50 games in the space of 4 or 5 days, and a small proportion of them fade into the background and are never heard from again. Sometimes you see something at Gamescom or E3, forget about it for years, and then suddenly think "Hey, whatever happened to that?"

This shouldn't come as a surprise, really. But game creator Fumito Ueda mentioned The Last Guardian in this week's issue of Dengeki PlayStation. And, from the sound of it, the game could be headed to the PS4.

Video: The open-world adventure game — being made by some folks who've worked on The Last Guardian — still looks pretty and mysterious but this new trailer seems to reveal at least one gameplay feature.

Are you surprised? So, the bad news is that The Last Guardian will miss TGS. Again. The good news is that the team is apparently "making great progress".

Look close and you might be able to guess what game some of the creators of Vane used to work on. Hint: it's one a lot of people have been waiting on for a long time.

Sony's press conference came and went last night, filled with pregnant pauses. None of those silences gave birth to any news about The Last Guardian, making it five years of barely suppressed longing. High time, then, for me to think about where I'm going to put this game in my heart, whenever it comes out. Do I still have room?

IGN is reporting that, according to "sources" privy to an internal Sony meeting last week, Sony's The Last Guardian - long in development limbo - has been canceled. Only for Sony to come straight out and deny it.

It's a real tragedy that The Last Guardian has gone from one of the most anticipated games on the PlayStation 3 to a weird kind of running joke amongst those who love Fumito Ueda's work. When the initial trailer for the game was released we were dazzled, but years have passed with no word as to a concrete release date. For that, Ueda has apologised.

When Spike's Geoff Keighley asked Sony's Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes about the enigmatic Last Guardian, I didn't expect much of a response. And of course... we didn't get much of a response. Enjoy.

The Last Guardian IS in production. Although the game was absent from this year's E3, that's what we've been repeatedly assured of by Sony reps. Well, front man Fumito Ueda, creator of PS2 classics ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, stepped out from behind the curtain to reiterate that fact, but with a little caveat.

Our 90-minute nightmare is over. Sony's PlayStation boss Jack Tretton may have said that the long-awaited The Last Guardian was on hiatus today, but Sony's head of worldwide studios, Shuhei Yoshida, says that's wrong.

E3 website E3Insider.com has a listing for long-delayed PS3 title The Last Guardian. But does that mean the game is coming to E3?

Video games. It seems like we spend way more time talking about them than playing them. How did this happen? When? A large part of the whole ‘being passionate about games’ thing is the stupid product lust – the ‘hype train’. You can’t escape it. You can’t fight it. You know it makes zero sense, but you hop on board regardless. ALL ABOARD.

The Last Guardian should be out by now. It's not. It could have been shown off at the PS4 unveiling. It wasn't. Fans looking forward to the game have every right to wonder what the hell is going on, then and to them, Sony Worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida would like to say he's sorry.